浅析政府在改善族群关系中的作用与角色——以北爱尔兰问题为例

族群关系的妥善处理几乎是所有多民族国家都面临的难题。北爱尔兰新教徒与天主教徒两大教派族群间的矛盾是造成北爱冲突的重要原因,而这与英国政府族群关系政策失当有很大关系。为解决北爱尔兰问题,英国政府通过改善族群间关系,促进了北爱社会内部的逐步和解,从而推动了北爱兰和平的实现。     

Does It Matter If the House of Lords isn't Reformed? Perspectives from a Symposium at Trinity Hall,Cambridge

In May 2011 the Coalition government published a draft bill for reform of the House of Lords, proposing an upper chamber composed of 80% elected and 20% appointed members serving for single 15‐year terms. These plans reflect aspects of the stated positions of the main political parties, votes in the House of Commons, and broader political and scholarly debates over the past decade. Nevertheless, there is significant opposition from across the political spectrum, and there is a significant possibility that the proposed reforms will not be enacted before the next general election. This article draws on the views of participants (including three current peers) in a Symposium at Trinity Hall, Cambridge to argue that the likely failure of the reforms may be less disastrous than many suppose. Especially since the 1999 reforms, the House of Lords is in many ways a more active and legitimate chamber than is commonly realised.     

The paths to citizenship: a critical examination of immigration policy in Britain since 2001

ABSTRACT

McGhee explores the Labour government's attempts to manage the challenges and protect against the ‘risks’ associated with a particular group of migrants to Britain: permanent immigrants. He examines how Gordon Brown conceives of his three-stage proposals for ‘earned’ British citizenship working with the wider managed migration strategy introduced by Tony Blair and Charles Clarke. At the same time, McGhee contextualizes the earned British citizenship proposals within the recent immigration policies and citizenship/integration strategies introduced by David Blunkett when Home Secretary. If the episodes of social disorder involving the second generation of settled immigrant communities in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford in the summer of 2001 were the events that triggered Blunkett's new integration/citizenship strategies, including the introduction of English classes and citizenship lessons for would-be citizens, then the 7/7 attacks by so-called ‘home-grown’ extremists were the events that influenced the emergence of what will be described here as the institutional racialization associated with Brown's recommendations. McGhee also explores the shift from Blunkett's model of civic assimilation, with its Cantle-esque emphasis on participation, to the Brown model of civic nationalism, with its post-7/7-fuelled emphasis on loyalty, shared values and responsibilities.     

侨务与外交:对中国侨务政策的思考——以中印(尼)关系为例

自20世纪50年代以来,"侨务服从外交"一直是中国处理对外侨务的指导原则。在中国与印度尼西亚的双边关系中,中国为了建立包括印尼在内的国际反帝统一战线,在侨务政策上作出让步,以换取印尼在中国对外战略上的支持。随着冷战后两极体制的终结,以及中国在经济上的崛起,中国实施侨务政策的大环境发生变化,侨务政策也因此出现调整的空间,但中国侨务政策调整的限度和可能性依然受制于一系列因素。     

台湾的侨务政策:嬗变与延续

本文以蒋氏父子执政时期、李登辉执政时期、民进党陈水扁执政时期、马英九执政时期的侨务政策为主线,通过政治经济及世界大环境背景的描述,配合侨务重点工作的整理及评析,阐述1949年至2011年间台湾侨务政策的嬗变与延续。     

马来西亚华人的三一教信仰考察

早期,三一教在兴化人中传播。作为一个小的方言群,兴化人具有较强的凝聚力,但与此同时,马来西亚的三一教也因为兴化人的这一特征而呈现封闭保守的特征。直到近来,以芙蓉志元堂为代表的三一教堂,才开始注重对自身、对三一教的主动宣传与发扬;也有更多其他方言群尤其是闽南人的信众纷纷加入三一教。三一教教堂的宗教特色和活动有其独特之处。     

公法契约之控制─从公私合伙架构谈起

针对公私合伙制度(PPPs)下之契约,探究其系公法契约或是私法契约,具有实际意义。英国、德国及美国在公私合伙制度下之发展进程,值得关注;特别是英国成功发展的PPPs,建构"公法下之政府契约"及"私法下之政府契约"之模式足资赞许;德国针对PPPs下之投资契约,是否适合置入于行政程序法下之行政性契约,相关立法沿革,值得注意与效法;而美国行政任务私有化后,行政机关对外购买服务,公权力充分与私部门分享,而未建构监督与契约治理机制,堪致忧虑,特别是契约外包之下,相关法律不禁止境外转包,则服务之质量与法律正当性受到质疑。     

国外证人证言可信性评估的研究述评

证人证言是诉讼中运用最为广泛的证据之一,如何有效地评估证人证言可信性是法律工作者最为关注的问题之一。国外关于证人证言可信性评估主要围绕证人的非言语行为、证人的言语行为及证人的生理指标三个方面。本文介绍了这三方面评估的方法、原理、程序、检验,并逐一作出了评价,以期对我国的司法实践有所启示。     

The Economic Consequences of a Hung Parliament: Lessons from February 1974

The British general election on 10 May 2010 delivered Britain's first hung Parliament since February 1974, and in the run‐up, the Conservative party made much of the economic difficulties Britain faced in the second half of the 1970s in order to try and convince voters that anything other than a Tory vote would risk exposing the nation to the discipline of financial markets. The question of how well equipped an exceptional kind of British government is to deal with exceptional economic circumstances is therefore of paramount importance. This paper argues that the Conservative party made too much of the impact of the 1974 hung Parliament in precipitating subsequent economic crisis and suggests that as such, there is no reason to assume that the Conservative–Liberal coalition government is ill‐equipped to manage British economic affairs in difficult circumstances.     

改革开放以来党的侨务理论新发展——邓小平、江泽民、胡锦涛侨务思想比较研究

本文通过回顾改革开放以来从邓小平、江泽民到胡锦涛三代中央领导人关于侨务工作思想和实践的探索历程,从宏观角度对中国共产党三代领导集体侨务思想进行比较研究.本文主要从邓小平、江泽民、胡锦涛对华侨华人在现代化建设、祖国统一、弘扬中华文化、中国人民与世界人民交往的桥梁和纽带、统一战线的组成部分和维护侨胞合法权益这六方面的相关论述来进行比较分析.通过比较研究,希望能够更清晰地理解改革开放以来党的侨务工作理论与实践发展的历史脉络,总结侨务工作取得的经验和成绩,并洞悉未来的发展趋势.